January 6, 2025

Salut tout le monde! 

I hope your week has been great and happy new year. I hope that you are doing well. 

I had an amazing week here in Les Lilas. It started really on Tuesday when I had one of the wildest member meals of all time. We went to Alex's house, who is our ward mission leader. So we get to his house and he has a full setup for the new year there was little gun poppers full of confetti. And the first course that was rolled out was Escargot, below is a photo.

So there is butter and some seasoning but how you get these snails out is with a tooth pick and it's like a chewy chicken flavor that I can still taste. It's wild, low key, not horrible but it's not something I will willingly eat again. During this night we listened to American music from the 80s and got some dope hats and wine without alcohol so yeah that was a hype night then we low key sprinted home because we were late. 

We set a baptismal date for February with our friend Martin who really wants to serve a mission. He is super cool. He calls me Elder Smiks lol. We had a week full of teaching too which was awesome. We actually had so many lessons and they were so fun we had an absolute blast this week. Spreading the word of God throughout the world.

Spiritual thought 

I found out that if we drink poison we would be ok. So essentially I am reading the new testament and it's crazy here is the scripture verse:

18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. 
19 ¶ So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.
20 And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.

In all realness I'm really loving reading the new testament. I'm not yet tackling the old testament but it is good we have learned alot about the gospel and what Jesus Christ has done for me and the people I'm teaching. 

Love yall have a great day here are some photos 


                                                                                   Cool park

                                                                                    Escargot
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